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Nation in brief
Compiled from Times wires INS missed L.A. airport gunman's terror tiesAn Egyptian immigrant who went on a July 4 shooting rampage at Los Angeles International Airport had told immigration officials nearly a decade earlier that the Egyptian authorities had accused him of being affiliated with a known terrorist organization, the New York Times reports, quoting unnamed officials as saying Tuesday. The Immigration and Naturalization Service failed to investigate evidence that appeared to link the immigrant, Hesham Hadayet, to an Egyptian extremist group even as the agency was considering his application for political asylum in the mid 1990s, the officials told the newspaper. A rigorous examination of the asylum application could have ended with Hadayet being deported, they said. The immigration service's handling of the Hadayet case prompted Attorney General John Ashcroft to order the agency last week to conduct an investigation into possible links between asylum seekers and terrorist groups, the New York Times reports, quoting unnamed officials involved. Girl's illness blocks visit by mother in taped beatingSOUTH BEND, Ind. -- A woman arrested after she was caught on videotape beating her 4-year-old daughter could not meet with the girl Tuesday because the child was sick, officials said. Madelyne Gorman Toogood was scheduled to have a 90-minute supervised meeting with her daughter, Martha, who is in foster care. Mike Gotsch, an attorney for the state Office of Family and Children, said Toogood would be allowed to see her daughter today if the girl has recovered from the flu. Also . . .L.A. WILDFIRE GROWS: A wildfire in the San Gabriel Mountains foothills above Los Angeles jumped from 8,000 acres to 12,000 acres in just a few hours Tuesday, sending smoke pouring over the sprawling metropolitan area and triggering public health warnings. MEAT TESTING TO EXPAND: After a series of recalls of contaminated meat this summer, federal food regulators plan to target all meat packers for random E. coli testing, reversing a policy that had exempted some processors from such tests. Agriculture Secretary Ann Veneman announced the policy Tuesday; it is to take effect in a few weeks.
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